Language is generative. Out of a finite number of grammatical rules in the system, we can produce an infinite number of sentences. This is ________ view of language.

To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping.

The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and re sources and messing up the environment.

Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.

The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.

It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.

"This overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries." (line 4, Paragraph 1) means ______.

A．more wrapping is needed for ordinary products

B．more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary products

C．too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary products

D．the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessary

The frequency of an AC generator is controlled by the ___.

A.rheostat

B.governor

C.exciter

D.capacitor

The study of language acquisition is generally known as ______.

A．theoretical linguistics

B．psycholinguistics

C．applied linguistics

D．historical linguistics

This is generally true of American schools, especially at the undergraduate level. _____________________________________________________________________________

W: So, why exactly does your job have reputation for being stressful? M: Stress is generally driven by the feeling of being out of control of a situation and the feeling of a situation controlling you. Trading in financial markets combines both. W: How do you relax in the evening? M: I very rarely do anything work-related so it’s easy to escape the markets. I generally go to the gym or go for a run, especially if I had a bad day. I always cook a meal rather than have a take-away. To do something my brain will regard as creative. W: Do you think what you do to relax is an effective way to beat stress? M: I don’t think there is a specific rule about how to beat stress. I generally find out what I do is effective for me. W: Would you consider changing your job because of the high stress factor? M: I have considered leaving my job due to stress-related factors. However, I do think that an element of stress is a good thing. And if used the right way can actually be a positive thing. W: What do you enjoy about the stressful aspects of your job? M: Having said all that, I do actually enjoy an element of uncertainty. I enjoy mental challenge. Trading generates a wide range of emotions second by second. How you deal with and manage those emotions dictates short medium and long term trading performance and success. 根据材料回答第 23～25 题。第 23 题 What is the man’s job?

______is generally thought of as the true beginner of the short stories because he was the first writer who formulated poetics of the short stories.

A、differential amplifier circuit

B、voltage amplifier circui

C、power amplifier circuit

D、current source

The transformational generative linguistics was first put forward by______.

A．Krashen

B．Halliday

C．Bloomfield

D．Chomsky

First, while language provides a means of saying and doing things, teaching is generally being divorced from the use we make of language.【M1】______ We teach an unapplied system, rather than teach students directly to do【M2】______ things that they need to do through languages. Second, language is a social tool used by thinking social individuals. Hence we teach students【M3】______ to do and say things with language which is fundamentally insignificant【M4】______ to them as persons, and consequently they say these things formally and impersonally. A third great source of inefficacy is due to an effort to 【M5】______ teach all the students in a group at the same rate. We acknowledge that this is unfair to the capable student, but we probably do not realize the unfairness to the slow student, who is often taking as being 【M6】______ unintelligent. Theres no evidence that slow students are necessary 【M7】______ unintelligent, or unintelligent students are incapable of learning a 【M8】______ language. With proper designed courses, students, learning to do what【M9】______ they need to the language, can rise to unprecedented levels of 【M10】______ competence.

【M1】

The frequency of an AC generator is adjusted by means of the _____.

A.main alternator field rheostat

B.exciter field rheostat

C.prime mover governor control

D.equalizing reactor